rigourrig‧our British English, rigor American English /ˈrɪɡə $ -ər/ nounExamples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
A lack of rigour in the investigation.
Ferguson has restored the rigour of self-scrutiny to history.
Regretfully I see in him a nature inclined to harshness and rigour, with little tenderness and forthrightness.
The difficulty with many bibliometric studies is their lack of theoretical rigour, as Gilbert and Woolgar have pointed out.
The facade of the building at least escaped from rigour.
This limits the potential rigour of design because the anchor of skill training is the specification of the objectives.
With even greater environmental rigour, harshness itself is a major direct cause of community structure.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE►intellectual
· If you read the writings of Claus Oldenburg you find it has a precision and intellectual rigour.
1the rigours of something the problems and difficulties of a situation: all the rigors of a Canadian winter the stresses and rigours of modern life2[uncountable] great care and thoroughness in making sure that something is correct: Their research seems to me to be lacking in rigour.